What is nonrenewable?
What is a mountain range?
What are the Great Lakes?
What is irrigation?
What is precipitation? (Will accept rain or other example of precipitation)
What are landforms?
What is natural vegetation?
What is piedmont?
What is renewable?
What are tributaries?
What is the equator?
What is forest?
What is the Mississippi River?
What is a metropolitan area?
What is humidity?
What is variable?
What is...(possible answers include to grow crops, to build homes, for recreation, for ranching....)
What are landmarks?
What is tides?
What is true?
What is live?
What are the Interior Plains?
What is the Rio Grande?
What is water?
What is false?
A resource that cannot be made again by people or by nature is called this .
The flow of water in a river comes partly from the river's drainage basin. The other source of water in a river is the rivers and streams that flow into it. These rivers and streams that feed into a river are called this.
This river forms part of the border between the US and Mexico
Plant life that grows naturally in a place is called this.
Two factors that determine how people use land are climate and this, also the name for physical feature.
An area near the foot of a mountain is called this.
True or False: There is an unlimited supply of fresh water in the US.
This large river and its tributaries drains most of the land between the Appalachian and the Rocky Mountains.
Climate, landforms, sources of water...all of these geographic factors affect where people work and where they do this.
Places located in the rain shadow of a mountain do not receive as much of this weather variable.
A group of connected mountains is called this.
If you visit the beach, you might see this, the result of the regular rise and fall of the ocean.
The amount of moisture in the air is known as this, which can cause you to feel sticky on a hot summer day.
A large city and its surrounding suburbs are called this. (Hint: Superman lived in a city named for this type of area.)
Most large cities in the US have been built near major transportation routes or near this important resource needed for humans to survive.
Plains, mountains, and plateaus are all examples of these physical features on the Earth's surface.
The use of canals, ditches, or pipes to bring water to dry areas such as farmlands is called this.
The four main vegetation regions in the US are: desert, grassland, tundra, and this region, which covers much of the eastern US where we live, including the Appalachian Mountains.
One-fifth of all the fresh water on the Earth is found in 5 US lakes, known as this.
The mountainous regions of the western US cause the climate there to change and be different from place to place. Weather and climate that is not constant,but changes is described by this word.
One example of how people use land is this.
Places that have normally higher, more tropical temperatures are probably located near this line of latitude.
This large landform region extends across most of the interior of the United States and extends from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rocky Mountains.
A resource that can be made again and again is called this.
True or False: Large cities are usually found near the coast, along river or the Great Lakes, or around major transportation areas?
